Racist Phrases

 These are a few examples of racist phrases that are still used today.,

• “Peanut Gallery” If second graders start to get chatty in their seats, the teacher might shout, “Quiet in the peanut gallery!” If someone is giving unsolicited advice in the comment section online or heckling in a theater, we might dismiss them as just complaints from the peanut gallery.
• “Grandfathered In” or “Grandfather Clause” If a longtime customer is “grandfathered in,” it means they’re exempt from any new (typically more stringent) requirements or fees a company establishes.
• “Gyp,” “Gypped,” “Jip” and “Jipped” When we feel shortchanged, cheated, or swindled, we might say we’re been “gypped” out of something. This one is racist because it’s tied to the term “gypsy,” an offensive term used to refer to the Romani people, who’ve long faced discrimination because of their darker skin and were even enslaved in some parts of Europe.
• “Uppity” If a Black school superintendent says something critical about a certain department’s

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